Paper 1581

Abstract

This study presents experimental evidence that the grammar of young Japanese-speaking children permits the sloppy-identity interpretation of phonologically null arguments. This finding is in conformity with recent, minimalist approaches to Hale's (1983) Configurationality Parameter that postulate a tight connection between the possibility of noun-phrase ellipsis and the availability of scrambling (Oku 1998, Saito 2003).

Published in

Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA)